 | Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| According to Steinhardt, the Kaoko rhino is less prone to attack than the East African rhino. It would usually be happy just to scare away its enemy. When it loses the smell, it continues to run. Strangely, the Kaoko rhino would attack with raised horns, after it has lowered its head twice bef... |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| It seems to be extraordinarily regular in its habits. In the evening or late in the afternoon the rhinos of the region where we hunted emerge from the heavy jungle and wallow in the numerous pools and backwaters near the Gandak River. They spend the night in feeding and in the early morning are ... |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| I saw the rhino still in the water and managed to get up near him just as he was leaving the pool. This proved to be a fine male with a horn measuring 12 ? inches. He had evidently been fighting and had festering incised wounds on flank and in stomach. |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| She had a half-grown calf with her, which was wandering about making most extraordinary noises, resembling the squawking of some large bird. |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| It seems to be extraordinarily regular in its habits. In the evening or late in the afternoon the rhinos of the region where we hunted emerge from the heavy jungle and wallow in the numerous pools and backwaters near the Gandak River. |
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| Maxwell, M. 1924 Stalking big game with a camera in equatorial Africa: with a monograph on the African Elephant. New York & London, Century Co., pp. 1-311, numerous plates |
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Africa - Eastern Africa
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Black Rhino
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| Barns, T.A. 1923 Ngorongoro, the giant crater; and the gorilla, the giant ape. Journal of the Royal African Society 22 (87): 179-188 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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Black Rhino
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| (After climbing to summit of Ololmoti, the northern crater) My followers and I arrived at the top very much out of breath and pretty well fagged, so it was a very mean advantage that two Rhino took of us on the very summit, by charging us in the rough scrub, shaking us up very badly after the ard... |
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| Hobley, C.W. 1922 The fauna of East Africa and its future. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1922: 1-15 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| They have irritable natures and have a stupid habit if charging down on anything that annoys their sense of smell. In hundreds of cases this has induced their death, for many a man has had to shoot a rhino in self-defence. I have myself had several narrow shaves owing to their sudden attacks. |
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| Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The animals are solitary or sometimes in pairs in the deep forest. |
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| Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
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| along the numerous rivers it has its particular places for the evacuation of excreta. Along the runs to such places it walks backwards and falls an unsuspecting victim to poachers.' |
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